Turtle Beach Malibu / Malibu Surround 64
The Malibu, with its Crystal CS4237B sound chip, was a Plug & Play card compatible with Ad Lib (OPL2 and OPL3), Sound Blaster Pro, Sound Blaster 16 and Windows Sound System standards.
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Released | 1996 / 1997 |
| Bus | 16-bit ISA | |
| Synthesizer | Kurzweil MA-1 plus software synth | |
| Chipset | Crystal CS4237B | |
| Standards | Ad Lib, Sound Blaster/Pro/16, WSS and General MIDI | |
| Ports | Mono Mic In, Stereo Line In, S/PDIF out, Game/MIDI port | |
| Memory | 2 MB ROM (4 MB patch set compressed to 2 MB) | |
| Part # | TB400-0550-01 | |
| FCC ID# | JMN-TBS-0550 | |
| Price | - | |
| See Also |
For MIDI, it got the same hardware wavetable chips as the Kurzweil HOMAC daughterboard, but also got a software synthesizer for use in Windows called "WaveStream".
Ports on the side are Line In, Line Out, Mic, and S/PDIF out.
Using the Crystal utility, CS4232C.EXE, this card's General MIDI capability can be used in a DOS environment - you just need to be sure to use v2.01 T3 (in the link above) of the drivers.
The Malibu Surround 64, launched in 1997, added SRS surround sound to the base Malibu model. It was their last ISA sound card.
In playback [digital-to-analogue] tests conducted by PCAVTech, it got a Signal-to-Noise ratio of -78dB - this is considered very good.
Board Revisions
Just one board revision is known: C
Competition
In the Media
Setting it Up
I don't have any information on configuring the Malibu.
Downloads
Operation Manual Get in touch if you can provide this! |
Original Driver Disk Get in touch if you can provide this! |
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